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**Pictures**
Beware: Sometimes when you work with pictures online, they can get skewed or pixelated. It is always better to resize them in a photo editor (like [|Picnik]) rather than using the handles to increase or decrease size.

**Copyright Free ClipArt**

 * Please use images you have taken yourself (or someone else at UB) or PUBLIC DOMAIN images. Images should not be copied from other websites. UNLESS you have posted images that you have taken yourself or are in public domain, copyright does not belong to you.*

//Here are some public domain websites to find images to use:// Discovery Education ClipArt [|Gallery] Public Domain Photo [|Database] WP [|Clipart] [|Photos8] Karen Whimsey Public Domain [|Images]

**Quotations**
[|Quote Stumbler] [|Quotiki] [|The Quotations Page]

**Photo Editor**
[|Picnik] - you can resize, crop, recolor, add stickers, text, frames and more (note - you can only upload 5 pictures at a time - the others are deleted)

**Graphic Design**
[|Splashup]create pictures and edit photos online, just like Adobe Photoshop [|Sumopaint] - edit pictures online, so easy just like Photoshop

**Word Clouds**
[|Wordle]- let's you type or copy text in and it produces a "word cloud" of your text

**Scrolling Text**
[|Screedbot] - make your own scrolling typewriter text. Save on computer as an animated pic (.gif).

**File Conversion**
[|CutePDF] - converts documents to .pdf files [|Adobe Reader] - program to open .pdf files

**Writing for the Web**
Research on **how users read** on the Web and **how authors should write** their Web pages. **Writing for the Web**
 * **Short summary** of the original findings: How users [|read on the Web]
 * [|F-shaped pattern for reading] web content, as seen in eyetracking studies
 * [|Writing style] is different for web-based text


 * These websites are also useful in designing the look and layout of a website:**
 * [|Writing for the Web]
 * Guide for developing [|usable & useful] Web sites[[file:100_0008.jpg|http://ebdaaeg.com/]]